As the price at the pumps creeps ever upward, a growing subculture of "hyper-milers" are trying to get the most from their fuel by paying obsessive attention to economical driving.

“It's in the nature of a game with myself, really,” says Lawrence Purdy of Whitehorse.

Purdy plays the game every time he gets behind the wheel and says he saves hundreds of dollars a year on gas.

Hyper-milers take every opportunity to preserve momentum, such as coasting down hills in neutral — anything to save gas.

“Although it pains me to do it,' he says, 'I do stop at the stop signs and make sure that I can proceed safely.”

Hyper-miler Simone Kitchen of Whitehorse was part of a team that drove across Canada from Halifax to Vancouver in 2012 on less than five tanks of gas. (CBC)

In 2012, Simone Kitchen was part of a team that drove across Canada from Halifax to Vancouver in a 2012 Volkswagen Passat on less than five tanks of gas.

She says it's all about technique.

“Definitely the two main ones are braking slower and accelerating slower. Those are the kind of ones you can use every day. And then there's ones about the air conditioner: trying to keep that off, keeping your windows up.”

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